Who Are We and What We Fight For!
Who are we?
Revolutionary Students’ Front (RSF) is a youth front which is here to fight against capitalism, and for a socialist democracy. We maintain political solidarity with progressive and revolutionary student organizations worldwide and believe in fighting shoulder to shoulder with other groups having similar goals.
Members at RSF take an active part in the day to day struggles of students, youth, workers and stand together with all oppressed classes and deprived members of the society. With scientific analysis of social issues, solidarity campaigns, educational literature, study circles, etc., we work to carry on the resistance. Educating ourselves and others to create a collective leadership from grassroots level is our mission. Join us in this fight for a better future, a better world for all.
What do we fight for?
Here are some demands which we put forth in the perspective of Pakistan. Only an end to capitalism and implementation of socialist democracy worldwide can resolve the socioeconomic contradictions inherent in capitalism. However, as Leon Trotsky explained in his Transitional Program, it’s necessary to link the daily struggles and the socialist program, through a system of transitional demands.
Demands and Program:
Free and quality education for all:
Education is a by birth right of everyone.
Free education at all levels along with a living allowance.
Establishment of university in each district.
Nationalization of all private educational institutions.
Free hostels for all students living away from their homes.
Free public transportation for students.
Combination of education with industrial production.
Uniform and modern education system throughout.
Removal of all conservative and reactionary content from curriculum.
Right to unionize.
Employment for all:
Everyone has the right to play a constructive part in the society. Guarantee of full employment to everyone by reducing the working hours. Living allowance for all unemployed.
No to fundamentalism:
Ban on all fundamentalist organizations.
End of intervention in Afghanistan, Kashmir and elsewhere.
Full freedom of speech, expression and organization.
No to discrimination:
Abolition of all kinds of discrimination based on race, gender, s*x, nationality, religion, etc.
Equal opportunities for all in every walk of life.
Action to protect environment:
Nationalization of industry and agribusiness.
Shift to renewable energy resources.
Free and efficient public transportation for all.
Why RSF?
We must ask ourselves that in this epoch, in what direction the society is being pushed to fulfil the requirements of the capitalist system and international imperialism? The future of the youth has become a big question mark in the recent crises. Will unemployment, unrest, war, poverty, price hike, and social alienation be the destiny of human race or is there a bright future?
International youth along with the toiling masses can take responsibility of providing safe and sound future to upcoming generations. We might find individual solutions by securing a better lifestyle for our own selves, but that does not change the bigger picture in the long run. Youth from all over the world has been cut apart from the process of social progress. The lust of multinationals has made this world a casino. Education and skills are being burnt as a fuel to benefit billionaires. Education has become a big business and its purpose is nothing more than a job in exchange of currency notes. Racism and fascism is being promoted in educational and social institutes. To highlight these issues has become a crime. Youth all over the world and especially in Pakistan is being lost into the darkness of alienation, drugs and extremism.
Be it Pakistan (1968-69) when the youth of this country proved to history that it can challenge this rotten and inhuman system anywhere in this world and youth has always played a revolutionary role. In these conditions, RSF aims to raise a slogan to organize youth all over the country against this monopolist and imperialist capitalist system. RSF thinks that youth should come forward and make their own way once again on the basis of Internationalism.
Socialism: The Ultimate Solution
Religious fundamentalism, war, exploitation, gender discrimination, social inequality, illiteracy, disease, environmental destruction – if you are against all this, you will have to struggle. You will have to start a fight against this capitalist system. We will not be granted rights, we will have to sn**ch them. We will have to fight this war together and we are not alone. Youngsters all over the world are rising and showing resistance to end this system based on exploitation, and to bring about a new dawn where the purpose of human life will not be limited to struggle for everyday needs; where human relations will be free of incentive, interest and jealousy; where youngsters will be free to explore the universe, and make their own destiny. All this is possible under a socialist planned economy where means of production will be owned by the society as a while.
Join Us
If you are sick of war, inequality, religious fundamentalism, unemployment, gender discrimination, ignorance, hunger and oppression.
If you are sick of the corporate domination of our lives and media.
If you are sick of the hypocrisy, injustice and cruelty of the system.
If you are sick of the decline in real wages, education and health spending.
If you are sick of the way, the environment is being destroyed in the name of profit.
If you are sick of feeling alienated and like there is nothing you can do to change all of this.
Well, you are not alone. There is a lot you can do. You can make a difference. Get involved in the struggle for a better world with RSF.
Friends, the problems mentioned here do not belong to any particular identity, but are common to all. Please contact us to get in touch.